japanese to english dictionary with fuzzy word search and kanji stroke order lookup
about
kanji search
- the jouyou kanji sorted by stroke order
- hover or tap over kanji shows stroke order and meaning
- double click/tap minimizes entry for copying
- multiple kanji, parts of meanings, and multiple comma-separated parts of meanings can be used in the search field
- graphics and stroke order from kanjivg
- project homepage
word search
- contains over 30000 translations, with words sorted by frequency of use. it is designed to cover the most essential words, not to serve as a comprehensive dictionary
- when searching by romaji, the tool finds words with similar spelling and pronunciation. this is useful if you have heard a word but are unsure about details like short vs. long vowels or whether it contains a "z" or "s" - this search may still find the correct word
- supports regular expressions. for example, ^word searches at the beginning, word$ searches at the end, and . can be used as a wildcard
- "word for searching exactly as typed
- katakana words (~8000) are not included. they seem distracting if included
- the length of result words is limited relative to the length of the input word, preventing short word searches from returning many longer words that contain it
- everything is contained in this html file. the file can be copied, modified, and rehosted under the cc-by-sa license
- translations are sourced from jmdict, word frequency data is sourced from gimenes, m., & new, b. (2015) wordlex